Kurd Dies After She Was Thrown Into Sea In Italy

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August 5, 1999

LECCE, Italy - A Kurdish woman died on Wednesday when smugglers threw a group of illegal immigrants into the sea off Italy's southeastern coast, the coast guard said. The group, about 30 Kurds, Albanians and other nationalities, had sailed from Albania. The smugglers forced the immigrants overboard about 150 feet to 350 feet from shore. The woman probably drowned as she struggled to reach land. Thousands of people land on Italy's long and often remote coastline every year.